Spring blossoms signal winter's end

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Take a look back at spring blossoms from 2015: This is our kind of spring break. Mustard blooms delight the eye in California's Napa Valley on February 4. Click through the gallery to see more signs of spring and view photos submitted by CNN viewers below.

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An almond orchard bursts with blossoms near Fresno, California, on February 22. This picture combines three photos shot at different exposures (known as high-dynamic range imaging).

Cherry blossoms bloom under a blue sky on March 23 in Beijing's Chaoyang Park, a rare treat for a city usually "shrouded in smog," says resident Joyce Xu.

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A new life begins on March 9 in Petersburg, West Virginia. Lonna Ours was there to see her father-in-law's cow give birth. "Seeing this little one be born made me think of all the new life that will begin soon."

Pear blossoms signal the start of spring in Houston, Texas, on March 6.

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After "a long, cold, rainy, snowy winter here in the South," Tracy P. Bond was very happy to see these signs of spring in her Huntsville, Alabama, yard on March 9.

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The season's first bluebonnets blossom at the University of Texas in Austin on February 19. Taking pictures of and with the state flower "is a major spring pastime," reports graduate student Joel Keralis.

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Pink blossoms welcome tourists on an organic farm in China's southwestern Sichuan province on March 8.

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Magnolias usher in the season in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Joseph Boltrukiewicz spotted these on a walk in his neighborhood.

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A hot tub, great weather and a beautiful mountain view: Welcome to spring in Waynesville, North Carolina, on March 4.

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These guys -- spotted here from New York's Empire State Building and currently plaguing much of the northeast -- won't be around for long. Later, winter!